Titles | Titles
May.15.2013
As far as is known, the plays we watch penned by Shakespeare do not have the titles which Shakespeare gave them. In fact, Shakespeare might not have had any titles for his plays.
The titles we are used to are often bluntly straight forward: Hamlet; Macbeth; Henry Six Part Two; Henry Six Part Three...
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Mar.23.2013
Would you read 'Cooking with Poo' or would the title put you off? That it might not alter your culinary skills seems like a given.
Yet, it appears there is a range of book names, less mysterious and more confounding. If they were in the realm of bizarre fiction, one might have considered some...
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Nov.14.2012
If you can't say it five times fast, change it. If you can say it ten times fast, it has changed you.
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Sep.25.2012
First of all, this is very personal. You're you in a moment in time with things in you that you can't discover without the right book's help, so picking the right book matters a great deal.
There's only one way to pick the wrong book--have someone whose taste you...
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Aug.29.2012
Weeks fly by.
Same weeks stand perfectly still.
Two faces of timelessness of one and the same untitled life.
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Aug.14.2012
Like every author on the planet, I’ve spent endless hours mulling over creating titles for my work. One strives, of course, to be both memorable and honestly descriptive of the content.
There are also marketing aspects to be considered. The marquee value cannot be neglected since the book...
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Jul.25.2012
You'll have to be a BIG! Hemingway fan to want to read this one. Still, it might help you writers out there to feel more at home with your own false starts and, um, bleepy titles.
Whenever I work on a piece of writing more than a few days, I create a “dump file” where I can store my many...
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Jul.06.2012
When I arrived at the title of the first short story in my collection Curiosity Killed the Sphinx and Other Stories, I meant for the sphinx to be like that at Delphi, a sphinx with riddles. The first story is about the hierarchy of computer saavy.
The computer was a riddle in the1980s....
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Jun.01.2012
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May.31.2012
Check out this week's Friday Writing Tip
Fridy Writing Tip: This Title is Rated BSF
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